Re: Linux installation help

[Paul E. Johnson]

Let me help. You can email me directly if you like.  There's no doubt
this can be made to work.

 I use Redhat, but I used to use Slackware, so I know
this can be done.  In your "stock" linux install, which tcl/tk
did you have.  As I recall, Slackware does not use RPM, but it does
have a similar package manager, and you can use that to figure out
which tcl/tk you have.  If you have 7.6/4.2, or 7.5/4.1, I'm sure swarm
can be made to work.

In the Swarm FAQ, which I've been updating recently, and you can
look at http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq, it outlines
steps for installing.  If you look at the steps outlined there, it
will work. 

If you still have trouble, please post again and tell us this:
1. Are you trying the binary or archive install?
2. If you have a binary install, the most common mistakes are
   a. not including -ldl in the Makefile.conf and
   b. failing to properly set environment variables.


3. If you have an archive install, 
   a. Do the tests
for tclobjc and blt work fine? 
   b. How many different versions of tcl/tk do you have installed?

Good luck, let me know if you make it work.  Probably, you should let me
see your makefile.conf if you keep having trouble.


On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Larry E. Whitman wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> My question first, then some history (if anyone cares)
> 
> We are trying to install SWARM 1.0.5 with 1.0.2 apps on Linux kernel 2.0.30 
> using Slackware 3.3.
> 
> >From the needed section we are using:
> blt2.3
> listtclobjc-lib7
> tcl7.6p2 (we believe this is the problem)
> tk4.3
> tclobjc-1.2b
> xpm-3.4h
> 
> The compiler version is gcc 2.7.2.2/
> 
> Swarm compiles OK.
> 
> But the Apps do not.
> Here are the errors -
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libtcl7.6.a(tclLoadDl.o): In function `TclLoadFile':
> tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x13): undefined reference to `dlopen'
> tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `dlsym'
> tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x32): undefined reference to `dlsym'
> tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x43): undefined reference to `dlerror'
> make: *** [heatbugs] Error 1
> 
> 
> 
> I have been monitoring the list for about a year. Last year we tried to 
> install on HP and never got it to work. We got it to kind of work on a 
> 'borrowed' DEC Alpha and the non GUI tutorials worked. So, that kind of 
> petered out. I had been waiting on the NT, but now have a student this 
> semester to try this (actually we are trying three packages each with a 
> student).
> 
> I really would like to get over the install hump so we can start on the 
> figuring out how SWARM works hump.
> 
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
> Larry Whitman              817-272-5947  fax 817-272-5952
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> 
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